The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-03
at sharp: / want to catch the limited
cattle train West"

at sharp: / want to catch the limited
cattle train West"
Frankfurten Zsitung.
A man comes out of a tavern and hur-
rie5 down the street. A moment later
two other men rush out and shout '.StOp
him." A dozen men repeat the cry, and
the man is presently brought to a stand
by a policeman. When his pursuers
come up one of them remarks: There,
Fritz. it's no use trying to get away.
You will have to take another beer with
u.s." Then, turning to the gaping crowd:
Il thank YOU. gentlemen, for your kind
assistance"
NEGLIGENCE OR SOMETHING WORSE.
Macon Telegraph.
Real Democrats in Washington and
elsew here are exercised at the fact that
the repeal the Tenure OF Office Act, al
ready passed by the Senate, sleeps in the
pigeon hole of a committee room, while
the session draws rapidly to a close.
1t is bill which restores the COnstitu-
ton of the United States, vindicates the
attitude and record and protests Of the
Democrats on the subject for period Of
nearly twenty years.
The Tenure of Office Act was one of
the leading revolutionary measures of
the Republican Jacobins in 1866, 1867
and 1868. 1t lacked no element of usurp-
alton. Some notifications were made
in it in order to meet the demands of
Glen. Grant, but the Republicans retained
enough of the vicious provisions OF the
original act to destroy the Just powers of
the executive office and the true balance
of the Constitution, by giving to the
Senate a power not properly belonging
10 that body. it has been a fruitful source
of corrupt bargaining and maladminis-
tratiOn.
The House once passed bill repeating
this infamous legislation, but the Senate
held on to it. The bill in question
should have been properly referred to
the Judiciary Committee in the House,
to the Committee on Civil Service Re
form. 1t goes without saving that the
reference was highly injudiciOus and
improper, and is calculated to engender
suspicion. If this bill is not passed at
this session it will be a difficult matter
to get 1t in shape again. as the Republi-
cans are preparing for fight.
New York Evening Post
RATIONAL. VIEW OF THE NEGRO STATUS,
The independents paper this week on
the condition of the Southern negroes as
portrayed by themselves, is devoted to
III u
conveyances, hotels and places of amuse-
ment, and il shows that progress. sure il
slow, il being made in the abolition OF
race distinctions. In most States the
correspondents complain that people of
their color cannot obtain first-class ac-
cOmmodations in hotels and theaters, on
cars. and in depot waiting rooms by pay.
ing first-class prices, but this is only the
natural aggravation Of a tendency which
still exists IN the North. A Georgia ne,
gro perceives this fact, and then Gays
Southern hotels are not open to cOlored
people. The same, however, may be said
of "a good many Northern Ones" He
says further that Sin places OF amuse,
ment they are admitted to the gallery
only" and he might here alsO have added
that the same may he said of a good
many Northern places of amusement. for
it is only few weeks since cOlOred mem
bers of the Grand Army in BrOokly n
were informed that, if they attended an
entertainment given for the benefit of
their organization i'm theater of that
city, they would be restricted to the
gallery.